Significant NLRB Move Will Aid Pursuit of College Athletes Becoming Employees

In an interview last January, ESPN lead football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made a proclamation: You might as well make college athletes employees. “I say we’re on a path to unionization,” …

Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation d/b/a Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and Local 23, American Federation of Musicians (Bexar II)

The Board issued a decision in Bexar County II, restoring the rights of workers employed by a contractor to engage in protected concerted activity in their workplace. The new decision overturns Bexar County …

Biden Labor Board Relaxes Standard for Access to Property

The NLRB dumped its Trump-era legal test for deciding when property owners can lawfully exclude employees of contractors, reinstating an earlier standard that gives those workers more leeway to protest …

Workers entitled to more money from employers who break the law – labor board

 The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday said employers must compensate workers for “direct or foreseeable” financial harms, such as credit card debt and out-of-pocket medical expenses, that result …

Thryv, Inc. and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1269

In Thryv, Inc., the Board clarified its make-whole remedy to expressly ensure that workers who are victims of labor law violations are compensated for all “direct or foreseeable pecuniary harm” suffered as …

BARGAINING SECTORAL STANDARDS: TOWARDS CANADIAN FAIR PAY AGREEMENT LEGISLATION

“Over the last 30 years, it has become increasingly clear that Canada’s current model for establishing labour standards and collective bargaining, which developed during and immediately after the Second World …

Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association et. al v. His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario as Represented by the President of the Treasury Board, et. al

In this case, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice strikes down the provincial government’s wage control legislation because it violates the rights of freedom of association, speech and equaliity of …

Subcontracting: Exploitation by design. Tackling the business model for social dumping

“A new study commissioned by The Left in the European Parliament sets out how subcontracting has become the business model for exploiting workers in the EU. Numerous scandals – from systemic exploitation …

Labor gets its workplace changes through in the nick of time after late-night Senate sitting

Labor’s centrepiece industrial relations laws have passed the parliament, after many hours of late-night debate. It’s a political win for the government, which wanted the bill passed before the end …

Australia: Labor gets its workplace changes through in the nick of time after late-night Senate sitting

Labor’s centrepiece industrial relations laws have passed the parliament, after many hours of late-night debate. It’s a political win for the government, which wanted the bill passed before the end …

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